Remus Lupin One Shots ☾

Rest

Requested by timid_poet

It had become a common thing for you to tire yourself out and use your work as a distraction to stop your mind from thinking about your love, but nothing felt completely right or successfully done whenever he wasn't around.

Every morning was a day closer to the war and Remus couldn't be with you for most of the week. Sometimes he'd even undertake risky missions and be away for a month.

Could you stop him? No

Besides being a lovely and caring boyfriend, he was always admired for his great determination.

So there was no other choice and it was better for you to focus on your responsibilities as Order's assistant to collect more information about death eaters and Ministry's furtive activities.

It was a stressful job and your emotional attachment to him was making it harder to cope with the increasing amount of workload. You were constantly worried about him and how he was spending his time in the middle of danger.

In all your sleepless nights, he wasn't there to stop you from overworking with his soothing words, so you'd stay up all night and hopelessly try to do something positive.

But it was like your mind and body couldn't function normally when you weren't in Heaven. He was your heaven. You had to confess it to him one day...

Today isn't any different, just as stressful as previous days. You haven't seen him for almost two weeks by now.

Following your daily routine, you wake up after a short nap to start another boring day. As you make your way to bathroom to wash your face, you look into the mirror and notice slightly dark circles around your eyes. Your face looks paler than before, but you decide to ignore it for now.

Something is wrong with you.

When you get back to the room, a pile of unchecked documents on the table catches your attention and you feel a weird feeling in your stomach. Probably a sign of your stupid decisions to stay awake all night. You decide to ignore this too and make the pain go away with a cup of coffee.

It always works.

But today is the day that everything is against you. It only gets worse with each passing hour. Your eyes start to ache terribly and a pounding headache finds its way to the back of your head.

After hours of working nonstop, the pain in your head becomes too much. You huff and throw the papers on the table. There is just two way to heal it. 

Coffee was the first option and it didn't work. Second option is Remus and he's far away right now. It's one of those horrible headaches that won't go away with sleeping. You just have to stay awake or lie on the bed and deal with it.